howard and the control staff and your team. i want to thank my aids, amy chain for making sure our city needs why taken care. a couple of things i want to highlight as the person who authorize the proposition a that created the budgeting two year process, i appreciate and i'm glad that this is a process that i think now a couple years in has been working in helping us to manage our finances. i want to take a moment as someone who is in his district with the north beach clubhouse that has been closed for two years and we looked around the city and we had clubhouses that we closed, but we decided we need to open a clubhouse in each of our districts and move that forward. i want to thaveng the support to move forward with pilots on budgeting and plan nothing that area. i want to thank the mayor also for working with us

to increase a little bit of funding to ethics enforcement and then i think one thing that i'm always proud of the board of supervisors is doing is looking out and making sure the city of saint francis has a really robust social services and whether it's for aids services and i can't agree more with how important it is to come together and make sure we reverse terrible cuts coming from other places and making sure our homeless residents are taken care of and looking out for our future work force and those who have not been as advantaged. i appreciate the colleagues and as a board we stand for that. and again i want to thank you for what we've done tonight and look forward to going home soon.

>> supervisor compos. >> i wanted to recognize my staff and i think we should all have your staff in the chambers to stephanie and thank you for the work and stephanie in particular, thank you for the time you have spent here and i also want to acknowledge the staff of all the offices and mr. chair in particular, i want to say that your staff has done a tremendous job and you should be proud of captain stephani and margo kelly. it's hard to be an effective supervisor without having an incredible staff and i think that the fact that everybody has commented on a tremendous job that you have done, it's not just only a reflection of you, it's a reflection of them. so i echo everything that has been said

and the fact that we're here so early is a testimony to the work that has been done by the chair and by every member of the budget committee, thank you for the sacrifices you have had to make in the last few weeks. he want to make two -- i want to make two points. moving forward, i think there's -- there are some changes that can be made in terms of the process, how budget works in terms of the board and the mayor and one of the things that i think we could do going forward is maybe getting the budget even earlier so we have more time to digest a lot of the things that are here. with that said, i think this chair and this committee did a tremendous with the process. i want to thank you chair and how you have interacted with the districts. it's not easy to do. of course the mayor's

office and kate howard and your staff. thank you for the professionalism and the hard work and we couldn't do this without ben rosenfeld and rose. and their amazing staff and the city attorney who is here as well. thank you for the legal counsel that they provide. i want to mention a couple of things because i think the budget is the most important policy document that we can pass as a board and there are gaps and there's always things that i certainly wish that we had done and hopefully we'll have an opportunity to address some of those points and certainly the cost of living increases, one of those that i think we need to continue to watch because our workers work very hard and it's an expen sifb -- expensive city so i feel for that. but this budget is a reflection of

how unique san francisco is. not only have we restored the hiv cuts as supervisor wiener said, and thank you for your staff on that. you're doing things through this budget like projecting the transgender community in areas like the mission that had been sent to physical attacks and the fact that you're preventing that kind of violence is something that said a lot about who we are as a city. the fact that we're including in this funding for transgender health for the basic procedure that our transgender brothers and sisters need as part of basic help, that's a testament. you're adding health care to undocumented people who wouldn't be covered. that's

the city we are and i'm proud of that. so nothing is perfect, but i think that this is something we should be proud of. of course to the community who are still here with the workers. thank you for your work because you're the ones who make it possible for us to be accountable. and so last is to reiterate again, mr. chairman, it has been a pleasure to work with you. you should be proud of what you have accomplished and i think it has been a special week for us in san francisco and it's appropriate that we close with this moment as a board behind this budget. thank you. >> supervisor kim. >> i'm not sure if my mic is on. thank you. supervisor compos talked about the budget being -- and i think that this

document is a good reputation of our values. i want to thank avalos -- supervisor avalos for -- thank you. it's not late enough. late enough for me to change, but not as my last two years. but i want to appreciate the leader of ship of supervisor avalos, real legal negotiating around a lot of -- of 11 different supervisors and our needs and working with each of us in insuring our priorities were in. i had two and they were amongst our most vulnerable population, it was the seniors and youth, and i'm happy to see that we were able to restore of the cuts that were happening to these most vulnerable populations whether it's after

school or academic enrichment for our young people or nutritions and other services for seniors. i think that's important. in terms of our city wide priorities, our sity had one and it -- our city had one and it was housing. this city as we had mentioned is becoming unfordable and it's important we support our affordable housing and low substidi program. and i'm excited that has been put in for year two and it's going to make a difference for those in san francisco. the second priority was of course our hiv cut. this is something that we have feel heavy among. i'm glad we were able to restore cuts that didn't happen locally but happened at the federal level. that was heavy for all of us and supervisor wiener were leaders on that. i was happy to see some of our city

wide restorations around our wreck centers and parks. i think that was a great addition to this budget as well. so i will thank our office staff, april venaron and ivy lee for working with our district 6 stakeholders and i'm editing our list to make sure that our top priorities were put into this budget and they stayed late on both nights and i want to recognize that april did have a loss today of a very dear, close friend and she stuck it out for the day and i want to appreciate her and her family for that. thank you. >> okay. thank you colleagues. i thank you for your comments. we have some procedurals items. i want to add to the comments of my colleagues, thank you for your support through this process. it has been an interesting learning experience and we got through it and we have something that

we can be proud of. i forgot to mention, stancross, thank you. and the aids of my colleagues, thank you. we don't get it done without you and thank you for sticking it out. >> i want to thank you avalos for trying to gather that information. thank you supervisor for all of that. >> and to all of city staff that's here from our city attorney's office and controller's office, our mayor's budget director and your entire team that is here, and all of personal time you sacrificed, thank you forgetting this done. this is a remembering flex -- reflection of you. colleagues, we have a motion or could i have a motion to amend the budget as indicated in the summary amendments fiscal year 14-15. >> amended. >> we can do that without

opposition. so moved. >> we got past that one. motion to accept the mayor's technical adjusted by the mayor's budget. >> move. >> we can do so without opposition. >> motion to table item number 1 on the recess agenda the resolution to suspend the reserve. we can do that without opposition. not funny. >> motion to approve items 1, and 2 on this thursday morning agenda's to approve the proposed salary ordinances and authority the controller to make adjustments to implement the committee's adjustment and pass a budget. can i have a motion. you can do so without opposition. motion to prove items 3 and 4 approving the treasure island authority and the investment infrastructure.

motioned by supervisor wiener. we can do so without opposition. >> i want to thank anyone involved. have a great night and we'll see you in budget committee in a few weeks. [ applause ] >> any other items? >> we are adjourned. thank you

today on this beautiful summer san francisco morning. it's a little windy so bear with us. i'm with the s fm t a. i'm so excited to have you here, to have these folks behind me here but most of all to have these vehicles here. as i think about why we are so excited to have these new vehicles hitting the streets of san francisco. the first new vehicles to hit the streets in six or seven years. it's not just that our riders will have a smoother nicer ride on vehicles that are cleaner and neater and easier to access. it's not just for the operators and the mechanics that will have vehicles that are easier to maintain, it's not just for the agencies to

have increased security in the buses and better features from everything from the fuel to the light bulbs, what it's really about is when munis is working well, munis is such and important part of the city's economy that all city of san francisco benefits. all of the people who ride these buses are really benefitting everybody because they are not out on their own vehicles in the road causing pollution and congestion. they are getting around san francisco in the cleanest way possible and really contributing to what makes the economy strong. we are super excited about these vehicles for us and for our operators and mechanics and they are really a great benefit

for all san francisco. i want to acknowledge some people. i have been a member of my board of directors, my bosses, chairman to director jerry lee, ramos, i don't know if anybody else is here. mohammed the director of public works and we are going to hear a little bit about how these buses are part of the public space. just like these are clean, we want to keep these clean. the buses here from input, from our operators, transit workers union local 258. the san francisco transit riders union. the mta advisory committee. a lot of folks working together, our fleet engineers, mechanics,

supervisors, operators, most of whom are under the leadership of john who has been the driving force of getting these here. the one person who was so excited about this is our mayor. he kept saying when are we going to get to ride those buses? i'm happy to say this day is here. i would like to introduce you're san francisco mayor,ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you. some of them have arrived and all of them will arrive by july. i want to thank the commission and ed riis skin and the staff for investing properly. this is what we talked about for a number of years. when you realize that

many of the buses that we have are over 13 years old in the city and you realize on how not only how run down they are but we keep replacing the parts over again. we have learned the lessons of fuel economy, of ergonomics and designs and free coating on there and material that won't absorb the moisture that sometimes is spilled on there. these are going to be great vehicles, not only for the drivers to drive through our cities safely and for customers for residents who need a more modern fleet of vehicles to serve them as we attract more customers. this is where the economy has picked up

and certainly the financial situation from munis is improving as they make more investments. these are the proper investments to do. they are cleaner and hydro electric. we are using the money responsibly matched up with local monies. these are great investment. this is just the beginning. these bids take a long time, the manufactures take a long time in delivering these buses. but we'll see in the near future, the replacement of some 60 trolley cars that will bring street cars into the similar level of standard that we want. we are reif refurbishing as we speak. you see not only a modern aspect to them. you see the

bike racks in front because munis is about multi-ways of transportation. it not just stopping at destination to other destination. they can take other forms of transportation. these vehicles have arrived in a timely way. we have major events that will bring thousands more people into our city whether they are going to the concerts in our golden gate park or they are going to america's cup beginning next month all the way through september -- or they are making game day trips to the park. this will get people all around the city where they need to be and these will be the standard that we have for the future beginning now. i'm proud for munis and the commission and they are working with dpw. speaking

about dpw, muhammad and i worked together and we literally saw people who realized the second the bus arrives they can't eat on the bus. so where do they toss it? if they weren't looking or realized there was a trash can next to them as most bus stops do have them. they were irresponsible. we literally saw people tossing things as they got on boarding the buses. that's not good behavior. obviously we need to do a lot more education. we need to end that practice and we need to keep and attitude, a very spirit of keeping our public assets clean and beautiful as you see them today. this is what these buses ought to look like a few years from now. we know they won't, but we need to keep that attitude in the city,

not only with our youth but everybody in the city of all ages we see them discarding waste material onto the streets. we have a crew of people picking these up and reminding folks. we wanted to change things. that is part of using the giant sweep in the world ferries that we can use that spirit. i want to thank rachel gordon and the whole public works for using the giant sweep theme. today we have over 10,000 kids who signed that pledge. that pledge means they will personally take responsibility for their actions. so think about it. they will involve their families and talk to people. this campaign, larry said it's one of the best campaigns they have seen because they love all the players that associate themselves with the giant

sweep. of course today we have somebody that i felt, when we connect up and this is where muhammad and ed riis skin is doing to connect everything. we love our arts and we are engaging some of our street artist to be part of it. sweeping i believe is here today. he's one of our sales people for this pitch but he's going to be with us and i think you will find at some of the bus stops that we encourage some of the street artist to perform in they are going to find a medium without a word of negativity and they will point out why are you doing that? they will have an attitude for our assets and bus stops and

all the other places. i want to thank dpw again for the giant sweep campaign that they are doing and again reminding people we are a world class city. we ought to have that world class attitude. you look at some of the cities across the country i have had the opportunity to travel through. the streets are very clean and get reminded that we all have to contribute in every part of our city. that same attitude in every city is the last point i want to make today. june 6, almost 10 days ago, there was a very bad incident that occurred. a shooting occurred of someone firing into one of our buses. as horrible as that is, and we can talk all day long, everything from gun

violence to violence in itself to youth violence, we are doing everything we can to prevent that. while we are doing that in the community, there are individuals that want to cease the moment and make our community safe. on that particular day, rather that run away from the incident, there was concern for a passenger on one of our munis buses and the driver acted very responsely that they got out of harms way and drove to the hospital to get attention to one of the passengers that was strayed by a bullet. this driver is a san francisco resident, 14 years experience in the city, has

demonstrated year in and out with her fantastic driving record. button this moment, she acted way beyond the call of her daily duties and demonstrated heroic effort in making sure everybody on that bus was safe and getting that particular injured passenger to some services. i want to today to take a moment to not only recognize the buses in the city, but to take a special moment to recognize and thank the good samaritan for this year and that's phylica anderson. you are really are a great demonstration. not only a loyal employee but one that has

act out of very good concern for the public. it's something that we hope we have the guts to do when the moment happens. you do have the guts. you have a love for this city and i want to give you this good samaritan award for your heroic efforts. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i just want to thank god that no one was seriously hurt. thank you. [ applause ] >> she says she wants to be the first one to drive one of these new buses. >> thank you felicia, an extraordinary act that shows

incredible courage and quick thinking and compassion. one thing i have come to realize in this job is that munis bus drivers and train operators, all operators have an extra extra ordinary difficult job, with what's going on in the bus and the traffic with the streets and with events like you just heard about, it's a very difficult job and the great majority of them do it extraordinary well. we have professionals like felicia that do this when we have that kind of professionalism and excellence. thank you again for your great work. [ applause ] >> so, the mayor referred to

these buses as investments and that's exactly what they are. they are investment in the transportation system. while everybody has lots of ideas about what munis should do and mta should do and we all want great things to happen, it's about a community investment to direct where the funds are going to go and according to rules and that leadership comes from the mta board of directors. they are the ones allocating the resources to best serve the needs of this city. now i would like to introduce the great member of the board to come and speak on behalf of the board. >> mr. mayor lee, good morning. i want to thank my colleagues here this morning. we've all

been together on this and we work very well together to keep the whole city moving. i want to thank the director of transportation. lots of things are happening in this city. a lot of things are planning for the future. but this is so exciting because this is something that people can actually see. they will see it and ride it and enjoy it from the moment the service begins. thank john hailey for this experience. i'm glad to be part of the mta. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. mr. chairman. i had the pleasure of working with him. we are very grateful to have his partnership in helping us keep these buses. i

love the mayor's challenge at least i heard of the challenge that years down the road we should look at these buses to look as good as they do today. we have support from all of san francisco to keep these great investments to continue to look good. the other one is our transit director john daleey who has spent a lot of time to get these buses to hit the streets as soon as possible in a way that they will be providing great service for us for the next decade and more. to tell you a little bit more about the specifics of the buses i want to welcome job to -- john, to say a few words. >> thank you, everyone for coming. just